We found 239713 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 239713 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
239713 item(s)/page
Lot 203
A very finely carved, 19th century Japanese ivory netsuke of a father and child, signed. The father is holding onto the child with one hand and holds a den den daiko in the other, in traditional clothing with body length plait of hair running down his back. The child is in traditional layered clothing with floral detail to coat. Over the body cloth bag and hat. Approx. 5cm tall x 3cm across.
Lot 235
3 long handled pipes. An antique ivory smoking pipe with silver collars and panel to top of bowl. Base of bowl is hinged and has a release button at the back of the pipe to open the bottom of the bowl. Silver collars have French boars head mark. Panel to bowl has engraved decoration. Together with white metal oriental style highly decorated long handled smoking pipe with amber coloured mouthpiece, a/f and a white metal long handled pipe with hinged bowl to end with small vent holes. Ivory pipe approx. 28cm long. White netal pipe approx. 34cm long.
Lot 202
A 19th century Japanese ivory netsuke of an Oni capturing Shoki the demon queller's sword. Very finely carved. Oni is dressed in a loincloth sitting on top of a basket which shows the sword tip piercing through. The underneath shows Shoki's sword on an embroidered pillow. Exceptional detail throughout. Small nick to every edge of basket. Approx. 3cm tall x 4cm wide.
Lot 164
A Nain rug, the dark blue centre ground with central ivory medallion, pink and ivory flowers, ivory border decorated with plants, birds and animals bounded by two smaller border, approximately 184cm X 111cm, together with a Qum silk rug, the ivory field with birds amid the branches of a tree, deer around the trunk, with an outer black border similarly woven, approximately 132cm 78cm, and a small Isfahan prayer rug, the ivory ground with saplings in bloom with birds in branches, with a central dark blue lozenge reserve, with a dark blue border with geometric design, approximately 130cm x 72cm
Lot 261
A Qashqai West Persian runner, the indigo field with stylised birds, flowering plant and floral motifs around a string of stepped alternating ivory and burgundy pole medallions with similar motifs in an indigo stepped lozenge flowerhead and flowering vine border between ivory hooked vine stripes, approximately 502cm x 182cm Provenance: Christie's, 25th April 1990, lot 20 (£1784)
Lot 41
Ï’A pair of Japanese black and gilt-metal mounted tall display cabinets (Zushi), late Meiji period, the pagoda shaped tops each above a pair of doors with elaborately engraved mounts enclosing gilded diaper pattern interiors, with red lacquer shelves above two drawers, the bases each with a further drawer decorated with ivory mounted figures on cabriole legs united by rectangular plinths, 183cm high, 53cm wide, 46cm deep Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 492
JUDAICA:- Literature: A prayer book, FORM OF PRAYERS for the Feast of New Year... Hebrew text with an English translation by Samuel summer, with boards of brass gilt metal fabric and cream coloured celluloid to simulate ivory, published Vienna 8660-1900 by Jos. Schlesinger; 7.5" (19 cms) long
Lot 151
A MIXED LOT:- An American Fiddle pattern table spoon, initialled, by John Hay, a pair of American table spoons, crested & initialled "W", by Gale & Willis, two Danish spoons with engraved stems and an ivory handled Stilton scoop by Joseph Wilmore, Birmingham 1825; the latter 8.5" (21.5 cms) long; 8.5 oz weighable silver (6)
Lot 601
A LATE 18TH CENTURY DUTCH BRASS TOBACCO BOX oval with an engraved tavern scene on each side above an inscription, together with a boxwood & brass 3" rule with a slide, a brass-mounted ivory folding 12" rule by John Rabone & Son, and a pair of brass mounted wooden handled screw drivers (fitting together as one unit); the box 4.8" (12.3 cms) long (4)
Lot 622
A MIXED LOT:- An early 19th century turned ivory, circular snuff box, the cover inset with a plague (behind glass), tortoiseshell lining, a gold-mounted mother of pearl toothpick box (A/F), a mother of pearl card case, an engraved mother of pearl counter, a small coin, a steel pocket watch, a brass seal, and a gold seal (all contained in a leather box); the gold seal 1.5" (3.8 cms) long (9)
Lot 666
A MIXED LOT:- A late 19th century mounted block of tropical (Caribbean) hardwood with the inscription "Barbados 10Sept, 1898"*, two pairs of George III sugar tongs (one pair crested), a George III gold-mounted ivory toothpick box and an early 18th century oval box with inlaid tortoiseshell & mother of pearl cover, unmarked 1725-35; the latter 2.75" (7 cms) long *Commemorating the date when a devastating hurricane hit Barbados killing hundreds of people. The wood is surely a section of one of the trees which fell victim to the winds.
Lot 624
A SET OF ELEVEN VICTORIAN PLATED BUTTONS and a smaller button to match, each stamped in relief with two crests, by Firmin and Sons, a set of four brass-mounted, micro-mosaic small buttons, two other similar small buttons, a plated scent bottle, a glass scent bottle, an Indian bracelet, a mounted porcelain scent bottle, a Continental pink-enamelled aide-memoire, a plated clip with peacocks, and a Chinese ivory card case (A/F); the micro-mosaic butons 0.5" (1 cms) long (lot)
Lot 711
A LATE 19TH CENTURY AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN RECTANGULAR CIGARETTE CASE with rounded ends and mauve enamel decoration by Georg Adam Scheid, Vienna c.1890 and a black enamelled cigarette case with canted corners, inset gold-leaf highlights, and a central ivory panel, maker's mark "FVN", Vienna 1910-20; the latter 3.6" (9.1 cms) long; 7.5 oz (2)
Lot 382
A GEORGE III SMALL TWO-HANDLED TEA URN on a square pedestal base, with bead borders, a waisted neck and a domed cover with an acorn finial, the body with embossed bellflower garlands, and an ivory-handled dolphin spigot, crested, by James Young, London 1777 (with presentation plaque); 12" (30.5 cms) high; 31.25 oz (2)
Lot 90
A LARGE, EARLY VICTORIAN PRESENTATION TROWEL with a carved ivory handle, chased & engraved decoration and the inscription "Presented to William Taylor Esq.JP. and Alderman of the Borough of Preston by James Armstead, contractor on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the Tower and Spire of St Peter's Church, Preston and erected at the cost of the late Thomas German Esq. in memory of his departed wife, Ellen German May 1851, J. Mitchell Esq. Architect", by Messrs Barnard, London 1848; 15.3" (39 cms) long; 15 oz gross
Lot 629
AN 18TH CENTURY SMALL SCOTTISH MOUNTED MARINE IVORY? SNUFF MULL with a horn cover, the base scratched "WD 1792", the mounts inscribed "WD Sept 3rd 1872" & "WD 8th Augusut 1829" (all pointing to its transition through one family over generations), unmarked, probably 2nd half of the 18th century; 2.5" (6.5 cms) long
Lot 771
A FAN with carved ivory guards and pierced sticks, vellum leaves painted in watercolour with figures enacting a scene from 'The Tempest'. The central figure painted en grisaille (possibly a reference to Shakespeare or to Garrick as actor/manager) standing before a scroll inscribed "The Cloud Capt Towers, The Gorgeous Palaces, The Solemn Temples, The Great Globe Itself"; reverse plain 29 cms
Lot 750
A CHINOISERIE FAN ivory guards & sticks painted in fine detail and gilt with flowers & diaper patterns, paper leaves painted with reserves of a deer outside a farmstead and figures on an olive & gilt ground painted with insects, the reverse mainly plain with an insect, 18th century; 22 cms in a paper covered unfitted box stamped Chunshing
Loading...-
239713 item(s)/page